1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality
This cutting-edge handbook examines moral psychology and behavior, uncovering layers of human morality through a comprehensive overview of topics and approaches.
Featuring an array of expert international contributors, the book addresses five key themes: moral reasoning, moral judgments, moral emotions, moral behavior and moral self-views. Each section includes empirical chapters that address these themes at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup or intergroup level. Each section starts with a reflective chapter from a leading scholar in this field of study who shares their personal vision on key issues and future developments. Drawing on emerging research and featuring real-world examples, the book offers a deeper understanding of the social psychological factors that shape our moral behavior and how this plays out in our daily lives.
The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality will be essential reading for academics and students in social psychology, the psychology of morality, business ethics and related areas. It will also be a compelling resource for legal and HR professionals, policy makers and anyone interested in understanding the complex and multi-faceted nature of human morality.
Chapter 1 Introduction: What is right and what is wrong relates to who you are and where you belong: Unpacking the psychology of morality
Naomi Ellemers, Stefano Pagliaro, and Félice van Nunspeet
Part 1: A vision on morality
Chapter 2 Forward: The Century of Moral Psychology
Jonathan Haidt
Part 2: Moral Reasoning
Part 2a: A vision on moral reasoning
Chapter 3 Moral reasoning: My personal journey
Linda Klebe Treviño
Part 2b: Empirical review chapters on moral reasoning
Chapter 4 The intrapersonal level: Intrapersonal Moral Reasoning
Paul Conway
Chapter 5 The interpersonal level: Impartial Beneficence: The Forgotten Core of Utilitarian Psychology
Jim Everett
Chapter 6 The intragroup level: How social identity tunes moral cognition
Jay J. Van Bavel, Dominic J. Packer, Jennifer L. Ray, Claire Robertson and Nick Ungson
Chapter 7 The intergroup level: Human = Moral: The Boundary Conditions for Moral Reasoning Engagement in Intergroup Contexts
Lasana T. Harris and Ramandeep Mungur
Part 3: Moral Judgments
Part 3a: A vision on moral judgements
Chapter 8 Moral judgment: What makes it unique?
Andrea E. Abele
Part 3b: Empirical review chapters on moral judgements
Chapter 9 The intrapersonal level: How positions of power shape judgments of others’ moral character: A social context perspective
Marlon Mooijman
Chapter 10 The interpersonal level: Interpersonal Consequences of Moral Judgments about Others
Christopher W. Bauman and Erik G. Helzer
Chapter 11 The intragroup level: Moral Character in Group Perception
Marco Brambilla and Simona Sacchi
Chapter 12 The intergroup level: Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Decision-Making
Jennifer Kubota, Richa Gautam and Jasmin Cloutier
Part 4: Moral Emotions
Part 4a: A vision on moral emotions
Chapter 13 A vision (and definition) of moral emotions
Roger Giner-Sorolla
Part 4b: Empirical review chapters on moral emotions
Chapter 14 The intrapersonal level: Beyond Contamination and Disgust: The Role of Moral Emotion in Threat Monitoring and Moral Judgment
Simone Schnall and Robert K. Henderson
Chapter 15 The interpersonal level: What is shame? Shame as a relational network of emotion-experience
Nicolay Gausel
Chapter 16 The intragroup level: Moral emotions, empathy, and acceptance of others as ingroup members: A social neuroscience perspective
Eric J. Vanman
Chapter 17 The intergroup level: Moral emotions in intergroup relations: The motivations and consequences of advantaged group members’ aims to challenge the intergroup inequality
Bertjan Doosje, Hanna Szekeres, Enzo Cáceres Quezada, Michael Boiger and Judit Kende
Part 5: Moral Behavior
Part 5a: A vision on moral behavior
Chapter 18 Behavioural Ethics: A Retrospective Reflection and Prospective Prescription
Ann E. Tenbrunsel
Part 5b: Empirical review chapters on moral behavior
Chapter 19 The intrapersonal level: From feelings to moral actions. A working memory model of emotional influences on people’s own moral behaviours
Lotte F. van Dillen
Chapter 20 The interpersonal level: Affirming transgressors’ morality as a strategy to promote apologies and interpersonal reconciliation: The promise and potential pitfalls
Nurit Shnabel
Chapter 21 The intragroup level: When and why reputational concerns influence immoral behaviour
Bianca Beersma, Annika S. Nieper, Maria T. M. Dijkstra and Gerben A. van Kleef
Chapter 22 The intergroup level: The strategic use of morality in intergroup relations
Susanne Täuber
Part 6: Moral Self-Views
Part 6a: A vision on moral self-views
Chapter 23 On the vertical: How the Moral self pursues its highest good
Karl Aquino
Part 6b: Empirical review chapters on moral self-views
Chapter 24 The intrapersonal level: The Moral Self
Jennifer Jordan, Elizabeth Mullen and Marijke C. Leliveld
Chapter 25 The interpersonal level: Moral self-views, at the interpersonal level of analysis
Myryam Kouchaki and Rajen Anderson
Chapter 26 The intragroup level: Morally motivated intragroup deviance and dissent
Jolanda Jetten and Charlie R. Crimston
Chapter 27 The intergroup level: Moral self-views: The intergroup level
Matthew J. Hornsey
Part 7: A concluding vision
Chapter 28 How morality shapes research – A conversation with the editors
Susan T. Fiske
Biography
Naomi Ellemers is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands, elected member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Her research focuses on the way people live together in groups and work together in organizations. She examines how individual behaviors and moral choices are influenced by social concerns and group norms.
Stefano Pagliaro is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where he is Head of the GPM-Lab (Group Processes and Morality Lab). His main research interests relate to social perception and group dynamics. In particular, he is interested in understanding the way in which moral concerns regulate interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup dynamics.
Félice van Nunspeet is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is research leader of the program on Integrity & Ethics in the Organizational Behaviour Research Group, at the department of Psychology. Her research is focused on how social contexts affect people’s moral perceptions and motivations. She takes a psychophysiological and neuroscientific research approach to examine people’s implicit behavior and the underlying cognitive and affective processes.